Military History of Military Intelligence & Espionage

We Remember D-Day

By Frank Shaw, Joan Shaw

Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink

By Anthony McCarten

Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII.

By Stephen Walker

Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle

By Ben Macintyre

Britain's Best Kept Secret: Ultra's Base at Bletchley Park

By Ted Enever

3 Commando Brigade

By Ewen Southby-Tailyour

The Lion House: Discover the life of Suleyman the Magnificent, the most feared man of the sixteenth century

By Christopher de Bellaigue

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy

By Ben Macintyre

Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Blunden, Edmund, Strachan, Hew

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton

Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

By Catharine Arnold

Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II

By Ben Macintyre

Agent Zigzag

By Ben Macintyre

The Mystery of Olga Chekhova: A Life Torn Apart By Revolution And War

By Beevor, Antony

Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe

By Kathy Peiss (Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania)

McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime

By Glenny, Misha, Misha Glenny

World War I

By HP Willmott

Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922

By Eunan O'Halpin (Bank of Ireland Chair of Contemporary Irish History, Bank of Ireland Chair of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College, Dublin)

The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021

By Sophy Roberts

MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949

By Keith Jeffery

Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History

By Catherine Merridale

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy

By Sonia Purnell

The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.

By Damien Lewis

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By David Talbot

The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II

By Helen Fry

Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War

By Roderick Bailey

Edith Cavell: Nurse, Martyr, Heroine

By Diana Souhami

REACH FOR THE SKY.

By PAUL BRICKHILL.

Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain's Elite WWII Warriors

By Sean Rayment